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FOREST AND STREAM 
March 30, 1912 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
Edward C. Locke, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
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a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
AN INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT. 
The announcement made in another column 
by R. V. Pierce in relation to deer is an im¬ 
portant one. ' Dr. Pierce long ago established a 
game preserve in Florida that is in many re¬ 
spects ideal. He purchased St. Vincent Island, 
which lies in the Gulf near Apalachicola, and 
not only stopped the shooting there of all sorts 
of land and water birds, but protected deer 
and other game, planted suitable grains, and in 
every way^ known to modern practice encour¬ 
aged the increase of wild life. The results have 
been gratifying to the owner and have been 
watched with keen interest by naturalists and 
game breeders. Now and then our readers have 
been told of the progress of the doctor’s work, 
and he has freely given the results of his in¬ 
vestigations to the public. 
Dr. Pierce now comes forward with the an¬ 
nouncement that to the best of his belief there 
are on St. Vincent Island a number of deer, the 
descendants of native Virginia deer and the 
sambur deer of India. They are very fine speci¬ 
mens, the meat is excellent, they are larger and 
handsomer than the native deer, and indications 
point to rapid breeding among them. 
No doubt Dr. Pierce will watch these animals 
closely in future, and report the result of his 
investigations. Meanwhile it might be well for 
breeders to try crossing sambur and Virginia 
deer, in order to ascertain whether this may be 
done in other sections of the country, as in the 
South, and whether the offspring, if any, seem 
to be valuable. 
ORGANIZATION. 
An interesting example of the value of organi¬ 
zation was given at the hearing held not long ago 
in ’Washington on the question of Federal pro¬ 
tection of migratory birds. 
John B. Burnham, president of the American 
Game Protective and Propagation Association, 
had evidently been in communication with sports¬ 
men’s clubs all over the country, and these clubs 
were enough interested in the question to send 
representatives to W'^ashington to speak at the 
hearing. These representatives Mr. Burnham 
marshaled to speak on various aspects of the 
subject; they spoke and spoke effectively. The 
result was a remarkably effective presentation 
of the case from the sportsman’s point of view— 
a presentation which seemed to greatly impress 
the legislators before whom it was made. 
Forest and Stream has often called attention 
to the futility of individual effort in the attempt 
to secure needed legislation on any subject. The 
successive efforts of a multitude of individuals 
or small associations carry practically no weight. 
The united demands of the same number of 
people and clubs, if exercised together, may 
carry tremendous weight. It is the difference 
between the accomplishments of a skirmish line 
and of a brigade. The first with a great noise 
deals in multitude of tiny blows, each one of 
which is practically ineffective. The other breaks 
down all opposition. 
The sportsmen of the United States are grad¬ 
ually coming to realize this difference. When 
they have wholly done so, and are prepared to 
act together, they will find legislative bodies en¬ 
tirely ready to respond to their reasonable de¬ 
mands. 
GENERAL lOHN W. NOBLE. 
A LONG life, full of splendid service to his 
country, and of deserved honors, ended with the 
death of General John W. Noble on Friday, 
March 22. 
General Noble’s eighty years were bril¬ 
liantly active. A Yale graduate of 1851, he 
began the practice of the law a few years later. 
In i860 he enlisted in the Union Army, served 
through the war, and at its close was colonel of 
cavalry and brevet brigadier general. He was 
United States District attorney in 1867-70, and 
later was offered the portfolio of Solicitor Gen¬ 
eral by General Grant, but declined it. He was 
appointed Secretary of the Interior by President 
Harrison in 1889 and served through his admin¬ 
istration. His work as a cabinet minister was 
marked by the loftiest patriotism. 
Among his many public services, the most im¬ 
portant was his establishment of the present 
system of National forests, which was made 
possible by the Act of March 3, 1891. General 
Noble induced President Harrison to sign the 
bill and himself laid out the first of the National 
forest reserves—the Yellowstone Park timber re¬ 
serve, to the east and south of the Yellowstone 
Park. Later he set aside the great Sierra re¬ 
serve in California, the Grand Canon of the 
Colorado, and a multitude of other reservations, 
to which later administrations have added, until 
now the National forests of the United States 
amount to 200,000,000 acres. 
Long before this a number of men had been 
working hard in behalf of forestry. Robert 
Underwood Johnson, William Hallet Phillips, 
John Muir, Theo. Roosevelt, Arnold Hague, F. 
H. Newell, E. A. Bowers, B. E. Fernow and 
others had done each his part to bring about 
some system which should conserve our rapidly 
decreasing forest area. But to General Noble 
fell the great happiness and the great honor of 
putting in operation an effective system of forest 
preservation. 
Nineteen years ago Forest and Stream, in an 
editorial entitled “Secretary Noble’s Monument,” 
spoke at length of his services to forestry, and 
after referring to- the efforts of other men in 
this direction, said: “All this, however, would 
have availed little had it not been for the wisdom 
and far-sightedness of Secretary Noble. His 
broad mind was able to appreciate the needs of 
this country, and he had the courage to lead 
public opinion where others would have been 
content to wait for the popular cry and then 
obey it. He has set on foot a work that will 
live long after he has passed away, and if in 
his administration he had accomplished nothing 
besides this work of forest preservation, he 
would have deserved well of his country.” 
LEONARD FINLETTER. 
The death of Leonard W. Finletter, which 
occurred on March 19, brought sorrow to a very 
large number of sportsmen who knew him well. 
He was found dead in the library of his home 
in Merion, a suburb of Philadelphia. On the 
table beside the chair in which his body was 
found were fishing rods and reels and tackle, 
and on the floor was a pistol. Evidently he had 
passed the previous evening in overhauling his 
kit in preparation for a fishing trip, and had in 
some way knocked the pistol off the table, and 
it was discharged. 
Mr. Finletter’s age was forty-six years. He 
was at one time a well known attorney in Phila¬ 
delphia, but had retired. He was a son of ex- 
Judge Thomas K. Finletter. 
Years ago Leonard Finletter was one of the 
most skilled trap shots in the country, and was 
a prominent figure at nearly all of the shoots 
held by the Riverton and Philadelphia gun clubs. 
In recent years, however, he turned to quieter 
forms of recreation, and was very fond of trout 
fishing. His collection of fishing tackle was a 
very fine one. Only a month ago he wrote for 
Forest and Stream a paper on “Trout Fishing 
on the Wutach,” in Germany, one of many that 
he had written for this journal. Prior to his 
angling excursion to Germany last year he told 
us that it was his desire to make the acquaint¬ 
ance of German anglers and clubs, as well as 
to fish, and in this way add to the pleasure of 
his sojourn there. 
Early in the winter Mr. Finletter began to 
make plans for the improvement of trout wa¬ 
ters in which he was interested, and in order 
to go about the work intelligently, he collected 
all the information obtainable from books and 
papers and interviews with fishculturists and was 
prepared to prosecute work this spring looking 
toward the food supply as well as the water and 
the protection of the trout. 
Nathan M. Barrett, of New Rochelle, N. Y., 
and Abram DeBonde, of Englewood, N. J., have 
been appointed by Governor Dix as commis¬ 
sioners of the Palisades Interstate Park, 
